The United Methodist Church General Conference, which is the international legislative assembly for the denomination that meets every four years, will take place April 22 - May 3 in Charlotte. The ...

An effort to remove anti-LGBTQ+ restrictions at the UMC General Conference emerged in response to decades of traditionalist legislative wins. While also removing anti-LGBTQ+ restrictions, progressive ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The United Methodist Church’s top legislative assembly got off to an earlier-than-expected start when it swiftly approved key measures to refashion the denomination’s global ...

Numerous church congregations in northeast Georgia and across north Georgia reached a deadline on Thursday for disaffiliating with the North Georgia United Methodist Church Conference. The North ...

The General Conference of the United Methodist Church in Charlotte is the first one that Robin Dease is attending as a bishop. And it’s likely the last one that retired Bishop Sharon Zimmerman Rader, ...

The United Methodist General Conference on Thursday completed adoption of its new Social Principles document, a statement of beliefs, and for the first time in 52 years, it won’t include the phrase: ...

The dismantling of Mississippi's Methodist denomination was on full display Wednesday in Tupelo. Mississippi United Methodist Conference's eligible voters agreed to ratify the disaffiliations of 189 ...

Bishop Robin Dease grew up in a family with 12 brothers and sisters. With that many children, there was always something to fight about, recalled Dease, who shared the story during her packed ...

Dozens of members from area United Methodist churches gathered Saturday in Dolton to hear updates on the denomination’s future as a vote approaches allowing individual churches to spin off due to ...

The Arkansas Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church has ratified the disaffiliation requests for all 67 congregations that wished to break from the church. The disaffiliation agreement for ...

(RNS) — The United Methodist Church has delayed its General Conference meeting for a third time due to the continuing COVID-19 pandemic. In response, some conservative United Methodists have announced ...